Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide

By Gary Goertz. 2005

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Social-Ecological Resilience through the Lens of the Social Sciences: Contributions, Critical Reflections, and Constructive Debate Conceptualizing power to study social-ecological interactions (2016, background): “Goertz (2006) identifies two principle structures: essentialist structures, highlighting necessary and sufficient conditions; and family resemblance structures in which conditions share certain features.”
Putting Typologies to Work (2012, background): “Our concern is with multidimensional conceptual typologies, yet many elements of the template are also relevant to unidimensional and explanatory typologies.”
Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning (2010, background): “These are difficult questions and, from a philosophical viewpoint, one can never be certain about the validity of a measure (Goertz 2005; Herrera & Kapur 2007; Munck & the chapel hill expert surveys 693 © 2010 The Author(s) Journal compilation © 2010 (European Consortium for Political…”
Conceptualising research performance (2010, background): “The inverse of intension is extension, where necessary conditions are dropped from the model in order to increase the number of cases it might include (Goertz 2006).”
Inferring Causal Complexity (2009, background): “Social scientists are often confronted with data sets that are too small and too inhomogeneous for a significant statistical analyzability, or as Mahoney and Goertz (2006) have argued, they are explicitly interested in sufficient or necessary causes rather than in statistical causal dependencies.”
Theorizing the meaning(s) of ‘expatriate’: establishing boundary conditions for business expatriates (2016, background): “…one hand, concepts can be defined ‘by individually necessary and collectively sufficient attributes’ – the classical view of ‘necessary’ and ‘sufficient’ (Goertz, 2006, p. 502) – whereby there is no ambiguity as to whether an item does or does not belong to the concept: membership is ‘all or…”
Set Relations in Social Research: Evaluating Their Consistency and Coverage (2006, background): “Fuzzy set calibration is much more demanding than conventional social science measurement and requires thorough utilization of theoretical and substantive knowledge coupled with careful concept formation and elaboration (see Ragin 2000; Goertz 2005).”
A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (2015, background): “Even so, scaling is a critical issue in measurement and one that has garnered considerable controversy, especially as concerns the virtues and vices of binary measures (contrast Elkins, 2000 and Cheibub et al., 2010).”
QCA, the Truth Table Analysis and Large-N Survey Data : The Benefits of Calibration and the Importance of Robustness Tests (2014, background): “We argue that such large-N datasets raise two methodological issues that have not received sufficient attention in methodological debates yet: the potential of calibration and the importance of robustness tests.”
Construct Measurement and Validation Procedures in MIS and Behavioral Research: Integrating New and Existing Techniques (2011, background): “This is consistent with the views of several other researchers (e.g., Blalock 1964; Borsboom 2005; Edwards and Bagozzi 2000; Goertz 2006; Law and Wong 1999; MacCallum and Browne 1993; MacKenzie et al. 2005), who argue that for some latent constructs it makes more sense to view meaning as emanating…”